Comments on: Whither Google Talk?

By: Skype Wake Up Call III: The Commentary : voiceontheweb.biz

Skype Wake Up Call III: The Commentary : voiceontheweb.biz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:26:01 +0000

[...] enthusiastic following who wants to see Skype succeed. As I stated in a comment to Alec Saunders "Whither Google Talk", there is a reason Skype is "sticky". Over 8 million people are online as I write this; I [...]

By: Vijay Anand

Vijay Anand — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:41:52 +0000

Alec, I've been hearing some reports of a project being built for Google that will be able to access the users of skype and even to the extent of it being built on SIP. After Yahoo and MSN linked up, there have been a lot of activity in the group. Perhaps that makes sense.

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:39:37 +0000

Same for me, Jim.

By: Jim Courtney

Jim Courtney — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:10:10 +0000

Rest assured that it was one option to load onto the evaluation Blackberry 8700 last week. Of course it's the same six contacts I had six months ago; somehow all my "presence" and "chat" is occurring in Skype these days.

By: lickedcat

lickedcat — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:28:03 +0000

I've never seen it (Gtalk) on Gooogle Pack before. But yes it was surprising to see Skype there on Sunday when I was looking to see if GoogleEarth was included in the pack (and no it isn't). Why Skype? why not other open or standards based clients that use SIP or XMPP? Strange. I use the bare bones Counterpath Eyebeam softphone which meets my lowly needs.